Critique my amber ale recipe

For 10 gallon batch
Recipe :

8# 2-Row
8# Munich
1.5#  Caramel 60L
1.5# Biscuit
1 # Carapils

Mash @ 154 for 1 hour
add 4 oz. Roasted Barley to top of mash and then sparge

60 Minute boil with hop additions :
1 oz. Cascade FWH
1 oz. Cascade 60 min.
1 oz. Cascade 30 min.
1 oz. Cascade 5 min.

Yeast : California Ale

What do you think? 
Thank you.

Looks pretty good to me.

What does adding roasted barley before sparge do?

Makes it so it contributes color but virtually no flavor.  Also doesn’t affect mash pH.

Never thought of doing this.  I may have to try this sometime.

Yes, what Denny said.  It is a technique I picked up from Gordon Strong’s book Brewing better Beer.  Great book!

Looks good to me to me too.

I’ve used chocolate in place of roasted barley as you are planning to do during the sparge for a Cali-common with excellent results.

Or you could use Sinamar since you just want color and not flavor.  That’s my preferred method.

All cascade hopped amber ale is a good idea.  I just bottled mine.  When I tested the gravity i tasted it and you get some really great hop flavor up front, but not bitter, and a nice caramely flavor from the c-120.

Brewed this last Wednesday and it is happily chugging away in the fermenters in my basement.  I got a little higher gravity then I had anticipated.  I may have to call this my Razorback Red!